MyGreenGuns
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The clip/mag thing, I would let go.
Finger on the trigger? Thats a no no.
I've taken some pix with my guns. Some of them have gotten me lectured. My xbox profile is me pointing the shotgun at the camera. Someone asked who the poor sap holding the camera was. Answer: Noone, it was taken with the timer. I have another one holding a pistol. In my pic you can see a magazine is loaded in the gun. Posing with a gun that has no mag is like posing with a car that has no wheels. Closer inspection shows the striker is down, you have to cycle the slide to cock the gun, clearly there is not a round in the gun.
All my pix were taken with an unloaded gun, pointed in a safe direction, with my finger off the trigger. When I see pictures with a finger on the trigger, I always assume that person does NOT know gun safety. Be safe when you pose for pix. To the untrained you still look cool, to the gun people, they know you probably know what you are doing.
Someone posted that they hated seeing someone clear a gun on the "YooToob". That made me laugh. I was at my big brothers house and we (me +2 brothers) were checking out his new toys. We were passing guns around in a circle checking them out. I watched my oldest brother clear each gun, and tell us about it. When he passed it to my younger brother, HE cleared it, and looked at it. I did the same when it was passed to me. When I handed it back to my elder bro, he cleared it again. Ammo is stored in another room, all that checking was "unnecessary", but I felt safer knowing they follow the same rules as I do. I remember laughing inside thinking that this would make a good "YooToob" vid about safe weapons handling.
Finger on the trigger? Thats a no no.
I've taken some pix with my guns. Some of them have gotten me lectured. My xbox profile is me pointing the shotgun at the camera. Someone asked who the poor sap holding the camera was. Answer: Noone, it was taken with the timer. I have another one holding a pistol. In my pic you can see a magazine is loaded in the gun. Posing with a gun that has no mag is like posing with a car that has no wheels. Closer inspection shows the striker is down, you have to cycle the slide to cock the gun, clearly there is not a round in the gun.
All my pix were taken with an unloaded gun, pointed in a safe direction, with my finger off the trigger. When I see pictures with a finger on the trigger, I always assume that person does NOT know gun safety. Be safe when you pose for pix. To the untrained you still look cool, to the gun people, they know you probably know what you are doing.
Someone posted that they hated seeing someone clear a gun on the "YooToob". That made me laugh. I was at my big brothers house and we (me +2 brothers) were checking out his new toys. We were passing guns around in a circle checking them out. I watched my oldest brother clear each gun, and tell us about it. When he passed it to my younger brother, HE cleared it, and looked at it. I did the same when it was passed to me. When I handed it back to my elder bro, he cleared it again. Ammo is stored in another room, all that checking was "unnecessary", but I felt safer knowing they follow the same rules as I do. I remember laughing inside thinking that this would make a good "YooToob" vid about safe weapons handling.